Job description
Role Overview
QA Specialist at Naphora Games Group. The role is based at the company's location, working to deliver high-quality mobile games through hands-on testing and quality assurance.
Company Overview
Naphora Games Group is building a global team of ambitious, driven people who are hungry to learn, experiment, and raise the bar for the next generation of games. The company collaborates openly, moves fast, and challenges itself every day to build better, smarter, and faster games that players around the globe love and remember.
Role Purpose
The QA Specialist works hands-on with game builds, features, prototypes, and releases to ensure games are stable, polished, and ready for players by identifying and documenting issues, validating fixes, and testing the overall player experience. You will work closely with Engineering, Game Design, Art, Product, and Production in a fast-paced development environment where experimentation, rapid iteration, and learning are central to how games are built.
Key Responsibilities
Testing & Quality Assurance
- Test mobile game builds, features, prototypes, and releases.
- Perform functional, regression, exploratory, compatibility, usability, and performance testing.
- Create and maintain test cases, checklists, and regression coverage.
- Identify, reproduce, document, and track bugs with clear steps and supporting evidence.
- Verify bug fixes and support release and post-release testing.
- Test across different mobile devices and operating systems.
Gameplay & Player Experience
- Test key player flows including gameplay, progression, economy, ads, in-app purchase (IAP), onboarding, and live features.
- Identify gameplay, usability, visual, and performance issues that may impact the player experience.
- Explore edge cases and unexpected player behaviors.
- Provide clear feedback on quality issues and areas that could affect the overall game experience.
Collaboration & QA Processes
- Work closely with Programmers, Designers, Artists, Product, and Production throughout development.
- Communicate quality risks, blockers, bugs, and testing progress clearly.
- Collaborate with the team to reproduce, investigate, and validate issues.
- Help improve QA processes, tools, test coverage, and overall testing practices.
Qualifications & Experience
- 2 or more years of QA or testing experience, ideally within mobile games.
- Experience with manual testing, regression testing, bug reporting, and test cases.
- Good understanding of mobile games and the player experience.
- Experience testing across iOS and Android.
- Knowledge of or prior experience with tools such as Jira, Miro, and Unity.
- Experience with Hybrid Casual, Casual, or Free-to-Play mobile games is a plus.
- Exposure to test automation or scripting is a plus.
- Experience testing analytics, events, ads, IAP, or live game features is a plus.
- Familiarity with App Store and Google Play release processes is a plus.
- Fluent in English.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong attention to detail and ability to spot issues and edge cases others may miss.
- Curious, methodical, and comfortable digging into problems to understand their root cause.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Able to take ownership of assigned testing areas and work independently.